Brickmaking keeps eating farmland as Bangladesh misses clean-build goal
via news.mongabay.com
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In 2019, Bangladesh set a target to end the use of traditional bricks and switch to concrete blocks in all government construction works by June 2025. Aimed at preventing the loss of farmland and the high greenhouse gas emissions associated with brickmaking, the result has largely been “a failure,” according to a top official. “Initially, […]